The Evolution of Relevance

Overview

Worshipful Brother Neville Wallace travels back in time seven hundred years to explore the roots of Freemasonry and its relevance in today’s contemporary society. Interweaving its origins with incredible illustrations, Evolution of Relevance tells the story of the origins of Freemasonry and helps us better understand its evolution, from Operative Freemasonry to Speculative Freemasonry to modern 21st-century Freemasonry Worshipful Brother Neville Wallace bring our forefathers to life with a beautiful, accurate reconstructions that visually trace each step in our evolutionary history. Combined with clear prose, this comprehensive book provides a rich history of each stage of Freemasons evolution, from the guilds of stonemasons and cathedral builders of the Middle Ages. With the decline of cathedral building, some lodges of operative (working) masons began to accept honorary members to bolster their declining membership. From a few of these lodges developed modern symbolic or speculative Freemasonry, which particularly in the 17th and 18th centuries adopted the rites and trappings of ancient religious orders and of chivalric brotherhoods. Freemasonry, a centuries-old fraternity with humble beginnings in the medieval stonemasons’ guilds of Europe, has since blossomed into a worldwide organization with a diverse range of regional practices. At its core, Freemasonry seeks to promote brotherhood and...show more